Subsea Cable Maintenance & Repair

A-2-Sea maintains in excess of 80% of all the subsea optical telecommunication cable that lands in the UK, utilising its own qualified jointing products, comprehensive equipment and highly experienced jointers. A-2-Sea also maintains many of the UK’s inland subaqueous telecommunication cables, together with subsea optical telecoms cables in Europe and other international locations.

We offer an extensive 365/24/7 hotline and standby maintenance service in the UK which provides a rapid response to faults within the terminal station, beach landing, subsea cable and along the land route. By maintaining a hotline, customers are assured of a rapid response to repair mobilisation and on-site repair implementation. Time, costs and downtime are kept to a minimum. The services include jointing, warehousing of clients’ equipment, cabling operations and beach excavation and earthing systems. We cover:

Shallow water and river crossing cables.

Subsea optical system land routes.

At-sea cable jointing support.

Emergency reburial of exposed subsea optical cable shore ends.

Maintenance and repair of equipment, ducts, signage and navigational aids.